The Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria (FRC) will host its 2026 Audit and Assurance Leadership Summit on August 13 in Lagos. The event, themed "Audit Integrity in the AI Era: Independence, Accountability and Reliable Financial Reporting," aims to address how artificial intelligence is transforming financial reporting and audit processes. Regulators, industry leaders, and auditors will gather to discuss the development of a robust framework to maintain audit quality, independence, and professional ethics as AI adoption scales across the corporate sector.